David Batchelor, Brick Lane Remix I, 2003, Shelving Units, found light boxes, fluorescent light, vinyl, acrylic sheet, cable, plugboards 204 x 435 x 38 cm
Metropolis II by Chris Burden (the movie)
A short doc about a kinetic sculpture that took four years to build. We had the honor of spending three days in Chris Burden’s studio filming this sculpture before it was moved to the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA) where it is being reinstalled.
The installation opens fall 2011
I heart iheartmyart.
Art/Technology: Laser grafitti ‘Protest Performance’ over censorship of street artist
On an unusually cold evening in downtown Los Angeles, street art supporters and veterans gathered to protest MOCA’s decision to erasestreet artist Blu’s mural. Monday night’s “protest performance” involved the use of laser graffiti on the whitewashed site of Blu’s mural. The video shows this creative form of protest and includes interviews of those involved. For more info and photos of the protest read here and the original LA Times article.
- Street artists laser graffitti LA MOCA to protest commissioned-then-censored public art (boingboing.net)
- “Controversy erupts over removal of Blu’s antiwar mural at MOCA” and related posts (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
Art: Sanrio’s Small Gift Art Exhibitions In Los Angeles
Sanrio is celebrating their 50th anniversary with an amazing two part art extravaganza known as Small Gift. The first part, Small Gift Los Angeles will debut this Friday, November 12 at the Barker Hanger and will be open to the public through November 21. The event features carnival games, a pop-up shop, food trucks, mini golf and 11 unique installation rooms. Then for Art Basel, Small Gift Miami, will open on December 2. Jamie Rivadeneira of Japan LA has tasked 50 of today’s best and brightest artists to create works inspired from the many Sanrio characters for the Small Gift exhibitions.
- Small Gift (coolhunting.com)
- Sanrio Celebrates 50 Years of Super Cute (laist.com)
Art/Design: Typomaps
Geography meets Typography: The world in words. It began as an experiment - and has been an exciting process. Now at last here . Available Geography meets typography: The world in words.
- 45 Creative Typography and Mosaic Portraits (noupe.com)
- In Your (Type)Face: 12 Textual Examples of Typography Art (weburbanist.com)
Art/Technology: Flutter
Flutter is an interactive artwork by Dominic Harris, and produced by Cinimod Studio. Presented at this years Kinetica Art Fair, the installation explores the viewer’s encounter with a rabble of virtual butterflies. Inspired by some ideas from the zoetrope and its later successor, the praxinoscope, by introducing interactive component it attempts to distance itself from the linear nature of the historical devices.
All hardware and control is bespoke, developed for the Flutter artwork. Each of the 88 screens is individually controlled from a PCB that holds 1 gigabyte of uncompressed full-resolution AVI animation. Each of these is connected in series to a DMX data signal, where the DMX provides the frame number of the animation file to display update at 60 fps.
- Interesting08:The zoetrope turntable (guardian.co.uk)
Art: Trespass. A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art
Drool, I can’t wait to get my hands on this gem.
Trespass. A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art is a new 320-page Taschen book by Carlo McCormick (pop culture critic, curator and Senior Editor of Paper magazine), Marc and Sara Schiller (founders of the Wooster Collective), Ethel Seno (editor).
- Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art (laughingsquid.com)
- Heroic Urbanism: 13 Cool Comic Book Cities (weburbanist.com)
